After the “Cradle to Cradle”, the next wooden house is being built in the harbor of Düsseldorf: The Düsseldorf architectural firm SOP is designing an eight-story building on Holzstrasse for the investor UBM Development Deutschland, called ” Port Wood”. .
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The Düsseldorf regional court has sentenced a 40-year-old man to 13 years in prison for a knife attack on two women in a homeless shelter. Compensation for pain and suffering of 40,000 euros is added.
A 40-year-old man was sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison in Düsseldorf after he critically injured two homeless aid workers with a knife. In addition, the convicted man must pay 40,000 euros in compensation to one of the women, who was 61 at the time of the crime, reports the “Neue Ruhr Zeitung.” As the newspaper reports, the Düsseldorf regional court considered it proven that the man stabbed the surprised women without warning and insidiously on June 17th.
The incident occurred in the café of a Diakonie facility. The perpetrator originally wanted to make a complaint to the home manager (63), but reacted violently when she asked him for patience. He then turned to the second employee and said, “We also have an invoice outstanding.”
The employee concerned told the court that the man was a regular guest at the facility and that she had not had any problems with him before. When he was arrested, the attacker allegedly said: “I stabbed a woman in the neck” and indicated that he was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. A blood alcohol test confirmed a level of just 0.1 per mille.
The crime scene is in the immediate vicinity of the Düsseldorf police headquarters in Unterbilk. The man was arrested shortly after the attack and, according to the Neue Ruhr Zeitung, has already committed previous violent crimes.
Glowing eyes, purring, hissing, moonlight and a junkyard: Since Tuesday, tickets for the tour of the Webber musical “Cats” with stops in Düsseldorf, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin next year have been on presale.
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“From April 2025, the classic can be experienced again in its original English version – in the authentic and refreshed successful production from London’s West End, which was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award as “Best Musical Revival” in 2015,” says the live entertainment company ATG Touring in Mannheim.
The version was already seen in Germany in the summer of 2022 – but at that time only in Dresden – in the Semperoper.
“Cats” by Andrew Lloyd Webber premiered in 1981 and is considered a revolution in the musical world. Some of the melodies in the piece are hits, including “Memory” (Moonlight).
The costumes and the story inspire many, but some also feel embarrassed. Hardly any other musical is as controversial.
According to the organizer, the “most famous cats in the world” have broken all records and enchanted more than 73 million viewers in over 30 countries.
The dates of the guest performances in German-speaking countries are April 9 to June 8 in Düsseldorf and then in June in Munich (June 11 to 22), then Frankfurt am Main (June 25 to July 6), then Berlin (August 21 to September 7) and finally Zurich (September 10 to 21).
Fans were amazed when Stefan Raab stepped into the ring fit and full of energy on Saturday evening in Düsseldorf. Many in the hall were looking forward to the TV comeback and the announced new show.
Stefan Raab’s boxing match against Regina Halmich was a box office hit: 13,000 spectators came to the PSD Bank Dome in Düsseldorf to see the entertainer’s return live. However, like millions of viewers in front of their TV sets, they had to be very patient until the fight started.
What was shown to bridge the gap and which took up significantly more space than the actual boxing match was actually quite entertaining. The best moments from Raab’s TV career were shown again, including scenes from “TV Total” and “Schlag den Raab”, but also from the chancellor’s duel before the 2013 federal election between Peer Steinbrück and Angela Merkel, in which he was one of the moderators.
In the films that were shown before the fight, numerous celebrities appeared: In addition to presenters such as Anne Will, Markus Lanz and Thomas Gottschalk, comedians such as Helge Schneider, Oliver Welke and Michael “Bully” Herbig and also singers such as Herbert Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg and Campino from the “Toten Hosen” had their say – in other words, all of Raab’s colleagues.
Other celebrities in the audience included streamer “Knossi”, drag queen Olivia Jones and Lutz van der Horst from the “Heute-Show”. The event was moderated by Frank Buschmann, Laura Wontorra and Raab’s former “TV Total” sidekick Elton.
During the entertainer’s long-awaited entrance, Raab once again showed his musical skills and performed the song “Pa auf’s Maul” together with rappers Sido and Ski Aggu, which was subsequently released.
Raab finally lost the boxing match that the spectators had been waiting for so long to defeat Halmich on points, but most of his fans had expected that anyway. According to a survey in the hall, only 36 percent of those present believed that Raab would win. Quite a few were surprised that he even lasted six rounds.
Viewers like Carsten and Christiane from Gütersloh, who describe themselves as fans from the very beginning, were astonished by Raab’s good fitness level.
Mark from Frankfurt had a similar view: “I already knew that the fight would end like this, but I was surprised that Stefan Raab looked like this.”
“I was surprised that Stefan Raab had lost so much weight. I was very happy to see him in great shape on stage,” added Roberto from Heidenheim. He also enjoyed the show itself. “Seeing Stefan Raab again after so many years and having the same feeling as back then was simply indescribable,” he enthused about Raab’s comeback.
Heinrich from Castrop-Rauxel, on the other hand, was annoyed that it was all about Raab and that there was no film for Regina Halmich: “She has statistics like no other. They could have shown something.” Regarding the debate about whether Raab’s humor is still contemporary, Heinrich says: “It’s not just contemporary, it’s missed.”
Juri from Villingen-Schwenningen, however, is skeptical about Raab’s TV comeback: “He was at his peak. It will be difficult to build on that. The sense of humor has changed. Now everyone watches YouTube. Television is dying out.”
When Raab announced after the fight that he had signed a five-year contract with RTL and would be starting a new show the following week, there was still great jubilation.
Whether the new format works will be seen in the coming week. “You won’t win a million here” is the name of the new show, but you will need a subscription to RTL+ to watch it.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is taking action: The “Pascha” now belongs to North Rhine-Westphalia. This is why the large brothel is in the focus of the authorities.
The well-known Cologne brothel “Pascha” was provisionally confiscated by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on August 8th. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office confirmed this when asked by t-online. The background to the measure, which is said to have been carried out by the Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office, is investigations into a gang of people smugglers. The “Bild” newspaper was the first to report this.
According to the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” and the “Bild” newspaper, the group was broken up in mid-May during raids in eight federal states. The gang is said to have smuggled wealthy Chinese citizens into Germany in particular – for up to 350,000 euros each. According to investigators, the group laundered its income from the smuggling business through the “Pascha”.
According to media reports, the main suspects are two lawyers from the Cologne area, aged 42 and 46. According to ZDF, a total of ten people were arrested during the raids – and around 1.2 million euros in cash was confiscated. The alleged confiscation apparently has no impact on operations in the brothel on Hornstrasse, which, with its 150 tenants, is considered the largest in Europe.
A spokesman for the Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office told Bild that the confiscation was a temporary measure – the state could only permanently confiscate the house after a court order. However, charges against the smuggling gang have yet to be brought.
However, the state’s action still has consequences: the current owners of the “Pascha” are now not allowed to sell the brothel or change anything on the property or the striking pink building that immediately catches the eye in Ehrenfeld. The “Pascha” has been in Cologne since 1972, and business was booming for years.
But with the first Corona measures in spring 2020, the business got into trouble, and in the autumn of the same year the large brothel had to close – bankruptcy was declared. But that was not the end of the legendary brothel: a group of Chinese businessmen took over the house for eleven million euros. The once sky-blue ten-story building was painted pink during the pandemic and reopened in 2022.
The fact that the “Pascha” has links to human trafficking, according to the prosecutors, also has a political component: the two lawyers from the Cologne area, who are said to be part of the group of “Pascha” owners, have donated almost 13,000 euros and almost 30,000 euros respectively to the CDU district association Rhein/Erft and the CDU Rhein/Berg.
The lawyers also donated 5,000 euros each to the CDU and the Junge Union. The two district associations made the donations public themselves and announced that they would cooperate with the investigators. According to Bild, the smuggling gang’s influence also extends to the Düren district: a staff leader employed in the administration there is said to have admitted to having received six-figure bribes from the group.
The rare Vb weather situation brings extreme snowfall and huge amounts of rain to Germany. Düsseldorf and the region are also affected.
Extreme snowfall and heavy rain are threatening Germany in the coming days. According to forecasts, a rare Vb weather situation will bring more than 300 liters of rain per square meter to parts of Central Europe, with the south and east of Germany particularly affected. The weather in Düsseldorf and North Rhine-Westphalia will also be affected by the extreme weather in the coming days.
The so-called Vb low will move over the Alps towards Germany by Friday at the latest. In Austria and the Czech Republic, meteorologists fear storm surges and snowfall at altitudes below 1,000 metres. In eastern Germany, the Elbe, Oder and Neisse rivers are particularly at risk. Due to the heavy rain, the situation there could become dramatic within a very short time.
The rare weather phenomenon is favored by greatly increased temperatures in the Mediterranean. The Vb low encounters cold polar air from the north, but usually it moves over the eastern part of Germany. A westerly drift is very unlikely, but could occur due to the inaccurate forecast. In North Rhine-Westphalia, there would then be a risk of heavy rain.
The extreme forecasts from meteorologists predict more than 125 liters of rain per square meter in Cologne and Düsseldorf, and almost 200 liters per square meter in the Ruhr area in just a few days. However, the weather models are currently still varying greatly, so an accurate forecast is difficult. A storm front is also moving in from the west along the North Sea coast.
According to the weather model of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), more than 30 litres of rain per square metre are expected in Düsseldorf, especially over the weekend. There may be isolated thunderstorms and heavy rain. However, the major impact of the Vb low will probably only be felt in NRW through its offshoots.
Nevertheless, there is a risk of a drop in temperature in Düsseldorf and the region in the coming days. During the night to Thursday, temperatures will already fall into the single digits, after which it will be almost frosty.
